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The “preliminary observations and recommendations” of UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor must have come as quite a shock for those who insist on regurgitating and propagating the narrative spun by the Greek government, namely that Greece’s notorious handling of the refugee issue is a lie, deliberately cultivated by …
The Mitsotakis government, after two solid years of consistently Orbanist far-right policies, ups its inhumanely anti-refugee game, introducing policies worthy of Salvini!
While Europe -and the whole world- stands on the brink of an all but certain new refugee wave of inestimable proportions from Afghanistan, the Greek parliament last week adopted a law …
Joint statement by The Left MEPs and members of the LIBE Committee Kostas Arvanitis (SYRIZA-PA), Cornelia Ernst (Die Linke) & Sira Rego (Izquierda Unida), on the incidents of violent illegal pushbacks to Greece by the Bulgarian authorities and the role of Frontex & the European Leadership.
While touring a series of carefully selected …
The new Pact for Migration and Asylum must be rejected.
The new Pact for Migration and Asylum proposed by the European Commission:
Further emburdens first reception countries
Appoints third parties to manage national and European borders
Undermines the European Acquis by disrespecting human rights
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1) Further emburdens first reception countries (Greece and Italy in …
